is this the right place to put this?

Palin's political career is about 12 years past its shelf life, lol. It should also be noted that the Democrat only won due to Alaska's new "Tundra primary" system in which all candidates from all parties appear on the same ballot and the top 4 finishers advance to the general election, where the winner is decided via instant runoff voting. Republicans actually led Democrats 110k votes to 75k on first preference votes, but the Republican field was almost perfectly split, with the more controversial and unpalatable Palin narrowly edging out her intra-party opponent and advancing to the final round, where her toxicity was enough to hand the Democrat a narrow victory.



Of course the media will now harp on for days about how this is yet another Democratic overperformance in special elections and portends well for the midterms and how this will be the year the president's party avoids the usual midterm backlash and so on and forth.


It should also be noted that this special election was only for the remaining term, a new general election (again between Peltola, Palin and Begich) will take place this November. With Alaska Republicans having just seen proof that Palin is unpalatable and would lose to Peltola, I expect them to either give Begich the nod this time, or for more Begich voters to rank Palin second.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Aug 31 2022 11:23pm

hilarious the gloating going on then. Palin is old news, not sure why she’s running for anything

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62905365

Donald Trump has shown great pride in handpicking the next wave of Republican stars.

Back when he was still in the White House, he wrote on Twitter: "As long as I campaign and/or support Senate and House candidates (within reason), they will win!"

In this primary season, he hasn't been far off.

Over the past several months, candidates endorsed by Mr Trump have pocketed victories across the country, winning 92% of the time.

From his home in Palm Beach, Florida, the self-proclaimed "king" of endorsements has weighed in on almost 200 races, backing Republican candidates running for the US Senate, House or state governor in 39 out of 50 states. It's an unusually high number - during the 2018 midterms, he backed just under 90 candidates for those same positions, according to Ballotpedia. That same year, former President Barack Obama endorsed 94 candidates.

The election will see voters decide who gets to sit in Congress, as well as hold key positions in their home state. And come November, it's Mr Trump's picks who will be representing the Republican Party on ballots across the US.

"It's extraordinary, because most ex-presidents walk away," said Charles Coughlin, a Republican party operative. "That's not what he's doing."

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He's not going away...

This post was edited by ferdia on Sep 15 2022 04:23am